Tunisia will announce its new prime minister today as it tries to halt the
chaos unfolding in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Talks to resolve a
political crisis between the ruling Islamists and the liberal opposition
took on a new urgency this week with two attempted suicide bombings at
tourist resorts on Tunisia’s Mediterranean coast.

Tunisia has been plagued by a rising tide of Islamist violence since the
overthrow in December 2011 of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the first of the
North African and Middle Eastern dictators to be turfed out in what came to
be known as the